Great Lakes, Ill. 1945. Two panoramic photographs, 10 x 19.25 and 8 x 18.25 inches. Minor wear at corners; lower left corner of larger image partially stripped. Minor toning and dust soiling. A striking set of two panoramic photographs that comprise official portraits of African-American Naval Company 771 at the..... More

[Amchitka & Anchorage, Ak. 1944]. 111 original photographs, measuring from 2.5 x 3.5 to 3.5 x 5 inches. Oblong folio album, string-tied; leatherette boards, front embossed and color stamped. Manuscript captions on album leaves; photos in corner mounts. A bit of soiling and wear to album leaves, fading to some..... More

Camp G.W.F. Wood, Texas: Oct. 18, 1857. [3]pp. On a bifolium. Previously folded. Bottom half of second leaf and upper corners torn away, with no loss of text. In this lively letter, William Beggs writes from Camp Wood to an enlisted friend at Fort Duncan, J.A. Richards, about the military..... More

Filadelfia: Imprenta de Guillermo Stavely, 1830. 59pp. Stitched as issued. Some light soiling and foxing. On the 16th of May 1826, Don Pablo Obregón, envoy to the United States on behalf of the Republic of Mexico, signed a contract with Samuel Chew for the construction and outfitting of a war..... More

Springfield, Oh. Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1898. 121pp. Folio. Original orange printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling, spine chipped with some glue repair. Ink ownership inscription at top of front cover. Minor internal soiling, several leaves with tape repairs at edges. Extensively illustrated souvenir publication of the Spanish-American War. Images..... More

[Vallejo, Ca.]: 1922-1933. [210] leaves plus [9] loose folio sheets and a silver-gelatin photograph. Original limp black leather, three-ring binding. Light wear to covers, spine ends heavily worn with some loss. Contemporary ownership inscriptions inside front cover. Some leaves loose, light wear at edges, light to moderate soiling throughout. Working..... More

[Washington: 1943]. [20]pp. Folio pamphlet, stapled. Original pictorial wrappers. Light wear to wraps, heavier at corners; spine beginning to perish. Even toning to initial and final leaves, otherwise clean internally. A fascinating example of propaganda distributed by the War Relocation Authority and the War Department in early 1944, published to..... More

[Junction City: 1899]. [48]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light dust soiling and occasional foxing. A very scarce Kansas promotional dating to the end of the 19th century, comprising both a view book of Fort Riley and advertising space for businesses in neighboring Junction City. The booklet contains twenty-six photographic views..... More

Philadelphia: A. Sherman, 1824. 12mo. 152pp. plus frontispiece portrait. Original blue boards, printed paper label. Front cover detached, spine heavily chipped, rear cover nearly detached. Contemporary ownership inscription on flyleaf. Lightly toned, minor foxing. Untrimmed. Biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, issued to coincide with his visit to the United..... More

New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1867. 34pp. plus photographic frontispiece. Original black cloth, cover stamped gilt. Light wear to spine and corners, minor soiling. Internally clean. Memorial volume for Captain Edward Lines, who served with the Kansas Cavalry during the Civil War and was killed in action on September..... More

Mexico City: 1847. 20,[2]pp. Large folio. Original printed wrappers, bound in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in recent morocco, gilt leather spine label, all edges marbled. Numerous additional blank leaves bound in. Rubbing and scuffing to boards, moderate edge wear; wraps with repaired chips and tears. Early 20th-century bookplate..... More

Puebla: March 17, 1847. Broadside, approximately 17 x 12.25 inches. Previously folded near lower and right edges to fit in a folio volume, with several small stab holes at left edge where previously bound. Some separation from left edge along lower fold line, and small area of loss at fold..... More

Zacatecas: March 12, 1836. Broadside, 12 x 8.5 inches. Stab holes along left margin where previously bound. Small, contemporary manuscript annotation at center of top margin. Mild tanning. A scarce bando printed in Zacatecas, to promulgate a February 26, 1836, decree regarding the ongoing war with Apache tribes in northern..... More